The iPhone gave billions constant pocket access to the internet

Evidence

The entire internet changed on January 9, 2007, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone. Combining a phone, camera, and web browser into a single device with a sleek touch screen, the iPhone promised to make the internet much more accessible. Tech industry skeptics dismissed it as a toy; for Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the iPhone was doomed because it was “not a very good email machine.” They were wildly mistaken. Within a decade, the iPhone and its Android competitors gave billions of people pocket-size computers capable of constant connectivity, transforming how the world accessed information and shared experiences. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 199

Categorization

• CANDY: Ballmer’s ‘not a very good email machine’ dismissal of the iPhone is a fun piece of trivia.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 199
• XREF: connects to: Mobile connectivity transformed the internet into a continuous overlay of everyday life. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 113